December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Homo/bi/sexuals Most Destructive (fwd)
by no_one＠nowhere.org 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

In article <199701250026.QAA13770(a)toad.com>, ravage(a)einstein.ssz.com (Jim Choate) wrote: > Much drivel about AIDS deleted. > > > One of the saddest commentaries on the entire problem is the > > man, a Pan-American flight steward, who was identified as carrier > > #1 by the Communicable Disease Center (CDC) in Atlanta; he died > > The correct term is 'Patient 0'. And the CDC is the Centers for Disease Control; and it has since found many, many prior cases of AIDS. These three minor errors are indicative of Attila's reliability of the subject. Of course, no one at CDC or NIH believes any of this crap; it was tired a decade ago. ObCrypto? How to implement RL anonymity protocols for medical treatment? (Of course I'm stretching it - but "carriers" were the *first* horseman.

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Re: Homo/bi/sexuals Most Destructive (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > From satan_is_a_hacker(a)juno.com Fri Jan 24 22:06:53 1997 > Subject: Re: Homo/bi/sexuals Most Destructive (fwd) > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 22:57:52 EST > > YOU ARE BOTH WRONG THE CORRECT TERM IS INDEX CASE > >The correct term is 'Patient 0'. You are welcome to contact the CDC in Georgia and correct their terminology. I am shure they would appreciate it. http://www.cdc.gov/ Their webpage search capability is temporarily down so you might have to talk to a real person, Center for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Rd., NE. Atlanta, GA 30333 404-639-3311 Jim Choate CyberTects ravage(a)ssz.com

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overview.htm
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

_________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW OF HIV/AIDS _________________________________________________________________ Some important facts about the evidence that HIV causes AIDS are: * Tests for HIV antibody in persons with AIDS show that they are infected with the virus. * HIV has been isolated from persons with AIDS and grown in pure culture. * Studies of blood transfusion recipients before 1985 documented the transmission of HIV to previously uninfected persons who subsequently developed AIDS. Before the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, epidemiologic studies of AIDS patients' sex partners and AIDS cases occurring in blood transfusion recipients before 1985 clearly showed that the underlying cause of AIDS was an infectious agent. Infection with HIV has been the only common factor shared by persons with AIDS throughout the world, including homosexual men, transfusion recipients, persons with hemophilia, sex partners of infected persons, children born to infected women, and health care workers who were infected with HIV while on the job, mainly by being stuck with a needle used on an HIV-infected patient. Although we know that HIV is the cause of AIDS, much remains to be known about exactly how HIV causes the immune system to break down. Scientists are constantly discovering more information about HIV and AIDS. These discoveries help people learn how to stop transmission of the virus and help people infected with HIV to live longer, healthier lives. One important question to answer is why some people exposed to HIV become infected and others do not. Scientists believe it is most likely because of how infectious the other person is and how they are exposed. For example, more than 90 percent of persons who were exposed through an HIV-infected unit of blood became infected. So we know that blood-to-blood contact is a very efficient way that HIV is spread. On the other hand, many health care workers are splashed with blood or bloody body fluids and this type of exposure has caused very few occurrences of HIV infection. Researchers know how HIV is spread and the ways that people can help protect themselves from being exposed to HIV. If you have questions about HIV infection and AIDS, please call the CDC National AIDS Hotline at the tollfree number, 1-800-342-2437. If you wish to write to CDC regarding this subject, please write to the CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse, Post Office Box 6003, Rockville, Maryland, 20849-6003. _________________________________________________________________ Back to HIV/AIDS Information Return to HIV/AIDS Information Back to DHAP home page GO BACK TO DHAP HOME PAGE (with graphics) (text only) _________________________________________________________________ Last Updated: June 13, 1996 Updated By: Technical Information Activity email: hivmail(a)cidhiv1.em.cdc.gov

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language drift
by Julian Assange 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

One of my projects involves tracking language drift; i.e the relative change in word frequency on the internet as time goes by. This is useful for predicting concept movement, and the anglisization rates of non-English language countries. Now, one day while browsing the frequencies from the 10 billion word corpus, what do I see? God 2,177,242 America 2,178,046 designed 2,181,106 five 2,189,194 December 2,190,028 ;) -Julian Assange <proff(a)iq.org>

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Re: testing email from airport kiosk
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

An update on the SF airport kiosk email machines: Judging from the headers, there _is_ a Linux machine driving the laptops, and there's a Metricom ricochet modem providing the communications path - interesting alternative to wires, and I guess they don't mind having the extra radio waves in the airport. It does support anonymous email, in that you can type in any email address you want, and it doesn't seem to mind. In addition to limited web, telnet, and outgoing email, it lets you retrieve email with POP3. Doesn't seem to be a way to get it to run a program, though :-) --------------------------------- Return-Path: <johndoe(a)airport.sf.na> Received: from linux.quickaid.com (root(a)www.quickaid.com [204.188.26.11]) by ixmail4.ix.netcom.com (8.7.5/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id VAA18934; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:59:22 -0800 (PST) From: johndoe(a)airport.sf.na Received: from SFO-00-6.ricochet.net ([204.254.16.39]) by linux.quickaid.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA22004 for <stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com>; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:00:13 -0800 Message-Id: <199701230600.WAA22004(a)linux.quickaid.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:58:40 To: stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com Subject: testing email from airport kiosk X-Mailer: QuickAID Kiosk who am i # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)

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Re: Fighting the cybercensor. (fwd)
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:38 PM 1/23/97 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: >> We here all know that this is right but it's obvious that >> the language is sliding towards Internet = Web. Most people > >Typical modern American attitude, getting it right is too much work so >let's lower the benchmark so anyone can be 'right'. >You'll be supporting Ebonics next. One of the points of the Ebonics program is to recognize that other people don't always speak the same way you do, and that if you want to communicate with them, you'll be more successful if you realize it, understand when they're talking in their dialect, and if you're going to talk back to them in yours, remember to translate on occasion. _Regardless_ of whose dialect is "right" (of course on technical issues, we technical people are right, but if you've got the hacker nature, treat it as a problem in social engineering.......) Speaker to Marketers

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Re: PSS_sst
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

# Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)

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Re: [No Subject:]
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi! It's useful to include a subject line in email so people can decide whether to read it and have more context for it, though calling yourself "fuck you" will probably deter a few people. There are lots of anarchists on the net; you can run into some good discussions on Usenet on several newsgroups with "anarchy" or "anarchism" in the titles. Rec.caves has good underground material...... As far as decryption tools goes, they're pretty closely related to encryption algorithms. There's been a discussion, probably on cryptography(a)c2.org (subscribe via cryptography-request(a)c2.org) though maybe it was on cypherpunks, about designing a screen-saver DES-cracker. At 11:47 PM 1/23/97 EST, fuck you wrote: >If anyone has any text files on the following topics please send them. I >have many files if any one else needs them. > >PGP >Making decryption tools >Anarchy >Satan >Anything underground > > > # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)

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Comments
by Lou Zer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

All comments on my article will be welcome and replied to.

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Anyone have info on foreign "ITARS"
by Bill Campbell 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone have any pointers to info about the import/export restrictions on encryption products in various countries. I know any such summary would be very dynamic, but perhaps there's something out there. Thanks! =Bill=

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